Dumbledore's trust for Severus Snape.

[Lauren Thibeault]

No: HPFGUIDX 138095

> Finwitch:
> > Because Dumbledore believed his story. That's it.
> > There is no secret reason (although Tonks &co. feel 
> > more comfortable to belive there was), just that. 
> > Dumbledore trusted Severus Snape simply because 
> > Dumbledore is a trusting man. Because Dumbledore
> > believes very firmly in the principle of 'innocent 
> > until proven guilty'.
 
> Hickengruendler:
> I disagree. I think this is what JKR wants us to
> believe, <snip> but this contradicts what we know 
> about Dumbledore, IMO. He is not that trusting. He 
> didn't trust Tom Riddle. <snip>
> 
> And yet this man doesn't waver a second in his trust
> in someone who was not only a Death Eater, but who 
> also was as a student probably as much in the Dark 
> Arts as Tom Riddle was? I really don't think so. I 
> still believe Dumbledore knows more about Snape than 
> we do, and that's why he trusts him.

I am definitely one of those who think Snape is not
evil. There are a lot of reasons but one that has yet
to come up in posts that I have seen so far: in the
first book during one of Snape's encounters at Hogwarts
with Quirrell he directly tells Quirrell that he will
need to figure out where his loyalties lie. I think he
has always been working for Dumbledore and we just
aren't sure exactly what happened to make Snape turn
from the "dark side".

Lauren